Since I was a young boy‚ I have had a strong interest in comic books. In the past few years many of the comic heroes I read about as a youngster have become movie heroes. The improvements in computer generated animation have made it possible to create realistic looking scenes and events that could only be represented in drawings by comic book artists thirty years earlier. For Fathers’ Day‚ I treated myself to a superhero movie called the “Fantastic Four”. Surprisingly‚ I found the movie to be entertaining
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Saving the Superhero. There has been a growing concern among parents and professionals alike that the superhero of yesterday is becoming the super villain of today. There has been steady shift from the comic book heroes that used to simply stand for peace‚ justice‚ and the American way‚ into the ultra violent‚ egocentric‚ and womanizing characters like we see depicted in the 2008 film Iron Man. In the film Tony Stark‚ also known as Iron Man‚ is depicted as a womanizing hero more worried about his
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The 1980s was the first time when independent comic book publishers made their mark on the industry formerly governed by big publications. Anyone with a printing press had the chance to create their own comic book‚ and as a result‚ the public was spoilt for choices. This era saw the rise and fall of many publishing houses with only few of them making a name for themselves in the competitive market. Mirage Comics created Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles which was enough to establish them as one of the
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takes place in corporate America through humor. This particular comic shows viewers how groupthink works. Groupthink is defined by psychologist Irving Janis as “The mode of thinking that persons engage in when concurrence-seeking becomes so dominant in a cohesive in-group that it tends to override realistic appraisal of alternative courses of action.” (Myers) The comic shows the use of irony in a groupthink situation. The comic seems to show what looks like a boss standing at the head of a conference
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Both of us were fighting at that time‚ and I’m telling you it didn’t happen! P.62 Sacco leaves the reader to wonder about the reliability of his guide-witness source throughout the story. It is only on the last page of the comic that Sacco reveals his own solution as a comic journalist to this damaging journalistic issue. He visits a reliable source to cross-examine the reliability of
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Art Spiegelman’s Maus‚ is a unique way of looking at history. Through the use of comics‚ Spiegelman allows the reader to draw their own conclusions within the parameters of the panes of the comic. Unlike reading a textbook in which the author describes every detail about the subject matter‚ comics allow for the reader to draw their own conclusions from the information given to them. Also by reading a serious comic such as Maus‚ we are able to break away from Maus has an interesting way in approaching
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Art Spiegelman’s comic “Maus” provides a unique way to learn about the Holocaust. Through comics‚ Spiegelman allows each reader to interpret the text in their own way. Spiegelman ventured away from the standard textbook method of describing history with specific details for each subject matter‚ and instead‚ drew his comic in a way that allowed each reader to form their own conclusions on the historical event. Spiegelman used unique elements in his comic to tell the story. Perhaps the most unique
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One show that I absolutely love and watch religiously is How to Get Away with Murder. I feel that How to Get Away with Murder is soaked in developed‚ strong‚ multifaceted female characters‚ and it is wonderful. The genre of the show is considering legal murder mystery which is typically a male-dominated area in the entertainment industry. While we all usually see only the occasional female romantic interest or female victims within these types of shows‚ How to Get Away with Murder has female legal
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the mischief the children get into. He dares Jem to approach the Radley house and makes up the "Boo Radley" game. He even runs away one from his own house and is found under Scout’s bed.In "To Kill a Mockingbird"‚ Dill’s antics serve as a welcome comic relief to the grim story surrounding Tom Robinson and Mayella Ewell. (10 points) 2. Miss Maudie discusses some of the town’s problems with the children. She says: “The things that happen to people
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Just about every comic book can be made political depending on the time the comic was written and what society is like during that time. Comic books were often used as a form of propaganda in the past‚ such as when Superman fought the Japanese saboteurs in World War II‚ but now politics in comics are not much propaganda as they are more of commentaries. Many comics can be affected by politics unintentionally if the writer has a political stance. It is okay for superheroes to be politically based
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